Daily News - Friday 21 February 2014

WELFARE recipients must have more regular assessments to address changes in their personal circumstances that require different levels of support, the country's largest welfare organisation has told the Abbott government's review of the sector.

I AM over the hard sell and the puppy dog eyes. I struggle to be polite when I say, not for the first time, that I don’t want to buy raffle tickets, or a badge, or a paper outline of something or other with my name on it to stick on the supermarket window.

WOMEN will be forced into debt and discouraged from working according to Labor, feminists and the childcare sector, who strongly oppose a business group’s proposal for HECS-style loans for childcare fees.

What is it like to watch your area succumb to drought, and how do you plot a course through a natural disaster that has no real start and end point? The ABC asked people dealing with drought conditions to tell their stories; here is a selection of the responses.

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